Visualisation of fire incidents using, Map Animation, in Arcview and development of Fire Emergency Management Information System for Central Pune

Visualisation of fire incidents using, Map Animation, in Arcview and development of Fire Emergency Management Information System for Central Pune

Conclusions:

1) Map Animation:
It was hypothesized that spatial and temporal patterns would be evident in the animation. The spatial and temporal patterns in the fire incidents were observed successfully in the map animation.

Given is an illustration of the animated map (one of the total 48 frames generated with a time interval of one hour.)

Figure 1: the animated map showing fire incidences.
Map animation is a simple but effective technique to assist human visualization and exploration of a space-time dataset; it will not find patterns (if there aren’t any) in the data by itself. There is also the danger that any pattern observed could simply be an artifact of the map animation process.

2) Efficiency of existing fire station network:
The minimum response time for the four fire stations to serve the area is 11 minutes, which according to Indian standards is acceptable, but there is a major scope for improvement and it can be brought down to 4 minutes, which complies with international emergency standards with allocation of one fire station.

Figure 1: the animated map showing fire incidences.

Figure 3: The Fire Emergency Module

Figure 4: The Roads Information Module
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